"That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you." — Richard Donner

I had life threats, because people accused me of approaching Brando as God and his son was Jesus. I literally had people saying my blood would run in the streets for doing that.

How was I going to make a man fly? How was I going to convince the public that an actor could fly?

When you make a film, you like to run it with an audience. They tell you you're narrow-minded or subjective, or that seems too long, or that doesn't work.

I've always wanted to do a Crichton book. I really love his writing.

It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

When when my first feature opportunity came along, I wasn't prepared, but we did it in about 17 days.

I'm open to comments. I'm open to objective points of view, because I've been very narrow and very subjective.

I was painting sets, working in editorial as an assistant, driving their trucks, lying that I knew how to drive a truck, and doing commercials and documentaries.

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That's how you get a performance - they put trust in you.